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RAlLWAY CONSTRUCTION TRAIN OR CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,246, datedSeptember 1,1885.

Application filed October 1, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARTON BERKLEY HiLL, of Lowell, in the county ofMiddlesex, ofthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new anduseful Improvement in Railway Construction Trains or Carriages Therefor;and I do hereby declare the same to be de scribed in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a train embodying my invention, thenature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Thetrain, as shown, consists not only of a locomotive platform-car and asupplementary platform-car provided with mechanism foradvancingtherailsupon themlengthwiseofthem, butone or more ordinaryplatform-cars, my

invention having reference to the said 1000- motiveandsupplementaryplatformcar. Fig. 2 is a top View; Fig. 3, a side elevation; Fig. 4:, anunder side view; Fig. 5, a front end view on an enlarged scale of thelocomotive platformcar. Fig. (3 isa side elevation of the supplementalcar. Fig. 7 is a top view, Fig. 8, a front elevation, and Fig. 9 a sideview,of one of the adjustable brackets of the locomotive-car, the latterfigure exhibiting railwaytrack rails as applied to such brackets.

The locomotive platform-car has its platform Asupported near its frontend by a swivcling founwhceled truck, B, while near its rear end it issustained by four wheels, (1, which are driving-wheels, two of which, oneach side of the car, are connected by a con nection-rod Z).Furthermore, for operating these wheels, the car is furnished with twosteam-engines, c, a boiler, (Z, and a tendertank, 0, of any suitableconstruction. Furthermore, the car is furnished with two auxiliarysteam-engines, f, the connecting-rods g of whose pistons are applied tocranks h, extending from a shaft, i,which has between the said twocranks a third crank, 70. To thislatter crank, and to a series ofothers, l, projecting from a series of other parallel shafts, m,arranged under and across the platform, as shown, a long connection-bar,m, is jointed, thewhole being so as to cause all the shafts m to revolvesimultaneously with and to be revol ved by the shaft 1',

On each of the shafts or there are fixed two broad wheels, n, each ofwhich extends up through the platform and somewhat above it, as shown,such wheels being disposed in two parallel ranges.

To the shaft i there are two other cranks, 0, which,'by means of twoauxiliary connection-rods, 1), extending nearly to the rear end of thecar, couple with a series of cranks, q, of other shafts, 0', arranged asrepresented,

'each of such shafts 1 having upon it a broad wheel, a, such ashereinbefore mentioned, it being, likethe others, extended up throughand somewhat above the platform. All the wheels or are in two parallelranges, each of which, when a rail islaid upon it and the several wheelsof the range are in operation, is intended to advance such rail from therear to the front end of the car or to a position between two ends ofthe ear. The rails and ties are to constitute the-load of the ordinaryplatform-car in rear of the supplementary car.

In Figure 1 the locomotive platformcar is shown at L, the supplementarycar at M, and the auxiliary car or cars at N. The supplementary car isfurnished at or near one end of it with a steam-engine,O, its boilerRandtendertank Q, such being to operate two ranges of broad wheels, 92,arranged in the platform of the car, and provided with mechanism forsimultaneously revolving them, such mechanism being like that of thewheels n of the 10- comotive-car, and to be operated by the steamengine0 suitably applied to it. The two ranges of broad wheels at of each carare at the same distance asunder, in order that when a rail may be takenfrom the foremost of the auxiliary cars and laid on one of the ranges ofwheels of the supplemental car, such rail, provided such wheels may bein revolution, will be moved along the range and by it be transferred tothe next adjacent range of the locomotive-car, to be by it advancedstill farther. These ranges of wheels are to save the labor of men thatmight otherwise be required to transfer each rail, or two or moreconnected rails, along the platforms of the ears.

The locomotive-car, near its front end, has a shaft, 6, whose journalsare supported in two standards, a. This shaft carries twofrictionwheels, o, provided with brakes to, applied to a lever, at, allbeing arranged as represented. Furthermore, there extend from the shafttwo longarms, g, each of which has a chain, z, depending from it at itsouter end. 011 the 5 shaftis aspiral spring, a, which, suitably confixedto it for seizing a rail and supporting it while it may be in the act ofbeing moved off the locomotive platform-car and deposited on the laidties of track. By means of the brakes and the friction-wheels thedescent of the rail,

or combined rails, can be regulated as may be required. There projectsfrom each side of the locomotive platformcar a series ofverticallyadjustable brackets, E. Each of these brackets is supportedbetween two guides, F, so as to be capable of being slid vertically,there being in the bar dot the bracket-a series of holes, d. On thebracket having been adjusted in altitude, a pin or bolt inserted in thehole next above the guides will serve,'when resting on them, to hold thebracket in position. On

each range of brackets two lines of rails, (2 are laid in parallelismand held to the brackets by suitable chairs or devices. Thesupplementary plat form -car may also be provided,

3 in like manner, with such brackets and rails,

or it may have the brackets above, which may be applied so as to becapable of being turned back flatwise against the side of the carthatis, into positions as shown at d in Fig. 6.

5 Each set of rails d is provided with one or more trucks or carriages,a, for transporting the ties, which are shown at f as loaded on suchtrucks. The object of having the brackets adjustable or movablevertically is to ad- 0 Init of the railway-truck on them being arrangedhorizontal or about so, when the construction-train may be either on anup or down grade.

Thelocomotive platform car is represented .5 as having on its platform abox, G, for bolding the tools, fish-plates, bolts, or other devicesusually required in laying a railway-track. As the track may be laid theconstruction train is to be advanced on it, the rails and ties, 850.,being advanced automatically on the locomotive and supplementaryplatform-cars. Guards n are applied to the said cars on each side of theranges of wheels n, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, to keep the rails whilebeing advanced from running off the wheels n.

I claim- 1. The locomotive platform-car provided with a steam engine andboiler, or mechanism for moving such car on a railway-track, and alsohaving to one or each side ofits platform a series of brackets, and arailway-track thereon provided with one or more wheeled tracks, allbeing substantially as set forth.

2. The locomotive platforn1-car provided not only with a steam engineand boiler, or mechanism for moving the car on a railwaytrack, and withone or more sets of broad wheels extending throughout lengthwise of it,and having mechanism for simultaneously revolving them, but with aseries of brackets, adjustable as described, applied to one or each ofthe sides of the car, and having laid upon it, the said series, arailway-track furnished with one or more trucks or carriages, all beingsubstantially and for use as represented.

3. The locomotive platform -car provided not only with a steam engineand boiler, or mechanism for moving such car upon a railway, and alsowith a series of broad wheels arranged in it, and having mechanism forsimultaneously revolving them, as described, but with a shaft and armsprojecting therefrom, and with friction wheels and brakes, and a springto the shaft, such shaft being near one end of the car, and all beingsubstantially and for use as set forth.

BARTON B. HILL.

Witnesses:

S. N. PIPER, E. B. PRATT.

